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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Activity 89- Playing with Children- Prepositions

Practicing prepositions of place has never been that fun for young learners!

Level: Beginner

Skills: Listening and Speaking

Material Needed: Colored balloons

Instructions:

Give each child a colorful
balloon. Give instructions about where the balloon should be placed according
to the prepositions they have learned. Also add different colors to the
commands.

Examples: “If you have a red
balloon, put it on the table.”

“If you have a yellow
balloon, put it under the teacher’s
table.”

“Put the green balloons behind our classroom door.”

Tip: remember that it’s always important to model the activities before you
actually ask students to perform the.

Variation 1: The teacher can also
put students in charge of the activity by inviting a student to say the
commands. They will love it!

Variation 2: For prepositions, you
can also have different colors of Hula Hoops, for they practice “in”, “out”, “through”, “over” and so on in a fun and different
way.

Vânia Rodrigues has been an EFL teacher for 22 years, 17 of which at a Binational Center in Brazil, Casa Thomas Jefferson. She has been a teacher, a Course Supervisor and is currently a Deputy Academic Coordinator at CTJ. She holds an M.A in Applied Linguistics from the Universidade de Brasília. Her main interest relates to nonverbal teacher-student communication.

Vinicius Lemos has been an English teacher for 17 years. He holds a B.A in Letras-Inglês (English Language and Literature) from Universidade de Brasília (UnB) and has been an EFL teacher at Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasília, Brazil, for 11 years. He was a presenter at the 2010 TESOL Conference in Boston, USA ,at the 2011 ABS International Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay,at the 2012 TESOL Conference in Philadelphia ,USA and at the 2013 TESOL Conference in Dallas, USA.

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